Organocadmium species

Organocadmium species are useful reagents for the transfer of fluorinated alkyl or aryl groups to other main group or transition metal centers. Most of the recent cases illustrating this property involve the use of Cd(CF3)2 and Cd(C6F5)2... 

Cationic ri -allyl(tetracarbonyl)iron complexes are powerful electrophiles that react with nucleophiles primarily to T -alkene(tetracarbonyl)iron complexes. Those species are rather labile and decompose during workup to afford substituted alkenes. This methodology has been described for the first time by Pearson using organocadmium nucleophiles. Similarly, Ti -allyl(dicarbonyl)(nitrosyl)iron complexes, despite the lacking positive charge, also smoothly react with various nucleophiles. As... 

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